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What you need to know about Florida today
› Engineering background helps with crafting beers
There are basically four main components to making craft beer – water, barley, hops and yeast. Kyle Smyth, a former mechanical engineer for Sea Ray boats and Harris Corp., and one of the three founders of Intracoastal Brewing Co. in Melbourne, has found another component in the beer-making the process: math.
› Census: Many counties in Florida have high uninsured rates
Nearly half of the counties in Florida have high numbers of uninsured adults according to new estimates released this week by the United States Census Bureau.
› Vacation rentals: Good business opportunity or neighborhood nuisance?
An explosion of short-term rentals by South Florida homeowners has left neighbors complaining and cities scrambling to regulate the practice.
› Cuba's forbidden fruit beckons tourists from Southwest Florida
Cuba was always forbidden fruit. That’s torture for a chef. But as five decades of political turmoil waned between the United States and the island just 90 miles south and unprecedented interaction set in, the culture became that much more attainable for Sarasota’s chef Tommy Klauber.
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